Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs
On Friday 03 June 2016 10:51:15 Joe wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Jun 2016 07:36:24 -0400
>
> Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> wrote:
> > On Friday 03 June 2016 07:03:54 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > > On Friday 03 June 2016 10:59:53 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > > Greetings all;
> > > >
> > > > Wheezy, i386.
> > > >
> > > > libreCAD looks like a simple enough cad I could learn how to use
> > > > but it cannot find its help docs.
> > > >
> > > > I do not see a separate docs package in the repo's.
> > > >
> > > > Does anyone have a clue where they might be found?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks all.
> > > >
> > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett
> > >
> > > http://wiki.librecad.org/index.php/Main_Page
> > > http://wiki.librecad.org/index.php/LibreCAD_users_Manual
> > >
> > > GIYF??? ;-)
> >
> > That, sadly, is for version 2.0, apparently much more capable than
> > the version in the repo's which is 1.07, and 6 years old.
>
> It's worth trying to run the current version (2.0.9) on Sid if you can
> organise it. It's still a bit buggy, but is improving fast with each
> version. Older versions were *much* worse. I also use a Windows
> version in emergencies, but that doesn't seem able to produce hard
> copy, or even graphics files, so is presumably a slightly older
> version.
>
> I used to use qcad, from [the community/free version of] which
> librecad was forked, and as far as I recall, the basics were very
> similar. Qcad still exists, but I believe the writers were not willing
> to port the free version to QT4, hence the fork. It took a while for
> the librecad people to sort out some really, really gross artefacts of
> the porting. Serious use of the zoom required 'great peace of mind'.
>
> I'd have thought that the 2.0 manual would be near enough to get
> started. Layers and drawing primitives are pretty much universal,
> things like extend and trim are less intuitive, but I don't think they
> have changed much. The philosophy behind copying/moving seems
> particularly non-intuitive, but easy once understood.
>
> I don't think even the current version is great at importing other
> drawing formats. and 'DXF' seems to be an aspiration rather than a
> standard file format.
I don't have a preference for output file format, as long as it will
convert to RS-274-D gcode. I have a simple little project, I need to
make a small bar, with two screws to attach it to another piece of the
same material, in this case 1/2" thick alu, carrying a jack screw in the
other end of it that can be adjusted to serve as a coggedd belt
tightening jack, with the screw bridging the space between the top of a
jackshaft frame I made several years ago, but with when mounted using
the OEM motor mounts, allows the shaft to rise, slackening the belt
enough to allow it to hop cogs when heavily loaded. This allows the
spindle to stop in just a few degrees of rotation while the driving
pulley, with a 1 HP motor behind it now, to finish burning up the belt,
long before I can hit the big yellow kill button. This lathe is a piece
of junk from the gitgo, but I'm stuck with it. Its been CNC'd with .001"
acuracy screws for yonks, and I am hopeing that with the latest changes
I am making to the drive train, I can reduce the frequency of belt
burnups. I have enough other machinery that I can do it without the
drawings, so its not a do it this way or die situation.
But I would like at some point before I fall over, and I'm north of 80
already, to master some cad program, preferably full 3d so I can maybe
make some of this stuff and peddle it on ebay because there are a half a
million copies of this thing been sold to unsuspecting people who didn't
know any better, like me 20 years ago. :-)
Thanks Joe.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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